Malcolm Gladwell: Would we be able to do something like this today? He says there is a line of either complaint or congratulation among sciences where they say that experiment could never be done today. But, he argues, we simultaneously conduct consentless experiments on human beings in the present day and don't think twice about it. "There's not even bother making these distinctions," Glaude says.
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